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Post by jamiemarieblue on Jun 21, 2007 11:22:44 GMT -5
My camp got robbed twice...
WHILE WE WERE SLEEPING IN THE TENTS!
My bag got snatched on Friday/Saturday night...I was admittedly dumb...I had taken precautions and locked up the iPods...hid the car keys so I won't keep them in my bag just in case something happened...but I came back from Tool exhausted...dropped my bag right next to my tent and went inside to take a brief nap before cleaning up our site...well the brief nap turned into a few hours and my bag was snatched. They got my cell, wallet and camera.
The next night after all that...my friend did the same thing...but he had the tent open and was sleeping half way out of the tent. He just crashed so hard that he didn't hear the thief come and snatch the bag. Luckily for him he found his bag about 70 ft away stashed under a car -- Money gone -- but everything else was there.
My bag still MIA. I am hoping it was under a car and someone turned it into Lost and Found.
In case you saw it:
The Bag One strap - messenger bag like - book bag Army Green Women's Rights's National Historic Site patch on the front with a Sun Flower
Inside the bag-
Small blue long bag with blue diamond pattern -- In that bag was my cell phone (Nextel) and Digital Camera
My wallet- Fossil brand Pink and black with images of 1950's women etc Inside my wallet are pictures of two babies one in a Dallas Cowboy outfit A Chance Card from Monopoly A whole myriad of credit cards and other important stuff you shouldn't loose about 15-20 Concert stubs
Post by mphsvoodoo on Jun 21, 2007 14:42:58 GMT -5
I woke up Thurs night to someone going through my cooler...I scared them off and made a sign that stayed on my cooler for the rest of the trip....NO beer in here, so don't bother looking (there wasn't either). I also had my flip flops stolen from camp while I was there, well they left me one of theirs as replacement. No biggie, they gave me blisters and I got cool pot leaf ones as replacements. The big loss was my digital camera...I left it on the ferris wheel for one minute. Went back and the girls in my seat said they gave it to the attendants...who of course never saw it. Oh well, karma is a bitch. Still had the best time of my life. The camera was my fault...I was way altered, lol.
All this really does suck! But you have to remember that a 'city' was essentially created in the middle of a field, with all the problems that are inherent to any city with the populations of 80,000+ (think Trenton, Decatur, Tyler, West Palm Beach). I would wager that the crime rate for bonnaroo was/is a tiny fraction of what occurs in those cities over a four day weekend...sans the 'goodies' of course.
Post by mindexpansi0n on Jun 21, 2007 20:52:18 GMT -5
You are a nicer guy then me, I woulda been tempted just to knock him out.
breton said:
I was laying down on a blanket with a friend near That Tent waiting for Rodrigo y Gabriella when I awoke from my nap to some kid picking up my backpack and trying to walk off with it. I said, "What are you doing?" He responded, "I'm sorry man. I thought this was my backpack." Then I said, "Well, it isn't. You want to put it back down?" Then he tried to be all "cool" about the whole thing and said, "Oh man, I'm so wasted, I thought it was mine!" Yeah.... sure.... jackass. Then I get up, grab my pack from him, and start walking away to take a quick bathroom break. Then I turn around and see him trying to take my friend's backpack as she is sleeping. That's when I lost it and said, "Motherf*cker, put that backpack down right now." He pulled the whole "Oh man, I'm wasted... this isn't my backpack?" line again and pretended to stumble around. I said, "Look, I know you are a piece of sh*t trying to steal, and in my neighborhood this would get you stabbed or shot, but stop with the bullsh*t lies and just leave." I have no respect for thieves.
Post by rushedstupor on Jun 21, 2007 21:33:44 GMT -5
We had a 1.75 of vodka stolen, but the day before some people had stumbled into our site and apparently chilled out for awhile. They left a fifth of maker's mark (a big step up from the heaven hill we had) and a camelback. We turned in the camelback as soon as possible mainly because it had keys to a relatively new mercedes.
Post by mindexpansi0n on Jun 21, 2007 21:47:59 GMT -5
Two acts of theivery... well, one and a half.
First - don't trust or buy anything off of the guys that sell "stuff" early at a festival, especially when they don't have a wristband and are all in a huge hurry to get a deal done. There were fakey fakies floatin round if ya know what I mean - and yes, karma is a bitch...
Second, I have a thief story. So it is like 3:30pm on Saturday - many people were in Centeroo and me and my girl were commenting on how quiet it was in the campsite. Then, from between two tents pops three nappy wooks; two guys and a girl. The first stinky runs up to me and asks me "you need anything to get high?!?!?" I was like "uhhhh, no". The girl trips over my grill, nearly sets the entire ground on fire, and then complains "your grill burnt my leg!". The whole time she is drunk and swaying and spitting, cussing, etc. The other guy sits on my cooler and gets in my face and is like "whatup man!". Then they proceed to walk off when I don't wanna give them a beer, walk about 5 tents down, and scrounge through someone's cooler - obviously ganking someone's beer. They take another look down at me and hustle off between some more tents. Totally shady, totally nasty, totally wook. Thieves suck, so do crackheads.
Post by piratestoo on Jun 21, 2007 23:15:41 GMT -5
i guess the good thing about being camped in the back of austin powers is it's too far to go out there just to steal. we left everything out, grills, bags, coolers etc, and it was never touched. i'm sorry to hear about things getting stolen. thieves will get their karma.
I was approached by a black guy selling t-shirts one night, when we declined he offered his gf for a handjob or bj. He even had her model for us. he was very persistant and we said no, obviously.
our site was hit on friday night but our crew walked into camp as it was getting hit........the dude was wearing a staff shirt and said he was instructed to take down all the pirate flags, we caught this cat with our pole on the ground and our flag in his hand......... after some akward stares and equally awkard silence he decided to offer us a beer, comment that he had like 40 of these flags at home he had stolen from previous years and then he stumbled off into the darkness. the following morning i noticed that the other pirate flags around our site had been stolen so i replaced my neighbors flags and fixed ours......................"every now and then it is necesary to raise the black flag"
Post by kaleidoscope kristen on Jun 22, 2007 23:39:55 GMT -5
we didn't have any real problems with theft.. all of our neighbors were pretty cool, except on saturday when we got back to our tent, the people camping next to us had taken our canopy and put it over their tent, and in the process messed up one of the legs. So that kinda ticked me off, but other than that everything was a-ok!
Post by fromthelandofmud on Jun 23, 2007 17:18:20 GMT -5
juggernaut said:
fromthelandofmud said:
I hate to add this to the thread...and I'm sure will upset many of you out there...and that is not my intention at all. But from my point of view...the more of these rap/dance/reggae/super heavy metal acts they keep adding and adding each year to Roo....the crime statitistics will continue to rise. As someone mentioned a bunch of posts back...that they never encountered any of this crap back in the Phish days....these kinda f'd uped low life people always seem to be appear when these genre's of music are on the playlist. I would be willing to bet my last dollar that if Bonnaroo was made up of simply jam bands/folk/bluegrass/country....the theivery would diminish immensely.
Sorry if I upset anyone, just had to get this off my chest, as last year we had our campsite completely vandalized, and I'm not afraid of any criticism on my views...lol...so fire away.
Three of the five shady characters who we caught casing our camping site looked like your typical phish tour-rat wookies. Huge dreads, dirty, giant pants, etc. The other two, who I found at our campsite when I left the Police early, told me that they were from Manchester and had just snuck in. They were there to see the Flaming Lips, according to them.
And you obviously never spent time around a large majority of jam bands and their fans and festivals, or else you're just close-minded and looking to cause problems. I had way more problems on Phish tour in the late 90's/early 2000's than I ever have at Bonnaroo. Camp Bisco has consistently been one of the more shady festivals I've ever attended. Hell, Bisco NYE was downright terrifying. The guy who I caught cutting my tent open in Bonnaroo 2002? Definitely not there for the heavy metal.
The problem isn't with the lineup, it's with the relative popularity of Bonnaroo. It's so well-known now that it's viewed as a goldmine for scammers. Anyone else notice the groups of guys walking around selling fake drugs? Ten bucks they bought their tickets (or snuck in) for the express purpose of making money.
In closing, Tool doesn't rob campsites; assholes rob campsites.
Just a quick rebuttal to your comments:
Being 42, I have spent over 26 years attending festivals, jam bands and their fans, etc. And no, you couldn't be further from the truth, my intention was not to cause problems. Was clearly stating an opinion, which I thought was what democracy in the land of the free was based on.
I find it strange that some folks are quick to pounce all over my stereotyping, when in their responses to my words, they in turn also stereotype by saying the majority were "wookies" causing the problems.
Hmmmm, seems like you have noticed one group of individuals who were committing acts of thievery more then any others, and you weren't afraid to state the fact. I really see no difference in your means to concluding it was primarily a group of individuals over another.
And that is entirely your right to feel it was mostly wookies creating the problem, as it is my right to feel the general bad vibes that seem to be increasing each year is being brought on by the ever increasing number of music acts I mentioned previously.
Thanks for hearing me out, and peace to you, I'm really not trying to cause problems.
I didn't see any shady types in VIP, but I still locked up anything I wanted to keep. I can't believe the amount of stealing going on. I was bitching about the bright lights in VIP, but maybe that was a good thing.
VIP is the only way to go my man. It was a great time and people seemed to be very friendly and watched out for each others stuff. The group of wasted college kids next to me were great too. They would always ask if I needed something when they went into town. I returned the favor by checking to make sure they were all still breathing each morning. ;D Can't wait for next year!!!
Post by sparklybecca on Jun 23, 2007 18:31:19 GMT -5
biglou said:
bigjohn said:
I didn't see any shady types in VIP, but I still locked up anything I wanted to keep. I can't believe the amount of stealing going on. I was bitching about the bright lights in VIP, but maybe that was a good thing.
. I returned the favor by checking to make sure they were all still breathing each morning. ;D Can't wait for next year!!!
lol, this just cracked me up, cuz i did the same thing with my brother and his buddies ;D
. I returned the favor by checking to make sure they were all still breathing each morning. ;D Can't wait for next year!!!
lol, this just cracked me up, cuz i did the same thing with my brother and his buddies ;D
I was trying to remember myself at their age and I don't think I would have survived what they did to their bodies each day. I woke up everyday to the sound of one of the ladies in this group throwing up. Friday, the day it rained a little, they left all the windows on their cars open. I ran around looking for their keys to close them up and put aways the electronics they left out. One of the guys showed up after the rain and just looked at the cars in amazement. He muttered to himself, I don't remember closing those windows, I must really be wasted. I hope they made it home OK. They said they were going to look for me next year. I took care of them and they said they felt safe around me. I was like having their dad around but I wouldn't come down on them for the stuff they did. People at roo were too cool!
Post by waitingfornextyear on Jun 23, 2007 23:51:14 GMT -5
I didn't see any blatant theft around us in Han Solo, but I did have two seperate encounters with people selling what turned out to be aspirin or something. My own fault. I do have a relatively good story that came from the young-ish group camped next to us. While going into Centeroo, one of the kids had a pipe confiscated. When they saw what security was doing with the bag of drug related confiscations, they asked the "tripping" member of the group to steal it once they got inside. Apparently he thought this was a good idea, and went for it. They got a bag with 20-30 pipes, joints, blunts, and a couple bags of goods. Kind of mixed emotions about this, but interesting nonetheless.
11/2/19: Tool 5/17/19: Blues Traveler 5/9/19: Tool 11/10/18: Tenacious D 9/20/18: White Denim 7/23/18: Radiohead 6/4/18: Jack White 5/20/18: Tool 5/18/18: A Perfect Circle 5/18/18: Alice in Chains 5/6/18: Blind Melon
You are a nicer guy then me, I woulda been tempted just to knock him out.
breton said:
I was laying down on a blanket with a friend near That Tent waiting for Rodrigo y Gabriella when I awoke from my nap to some kid picking up my backpack and trying to walk off with it. I said, "What are you doing?" He responded, "I'm sorry man. I thought this was my backpack." Then I said, "Well, it isn't. You want to put it back down?" Then he tried to be all "cool" about the whole thing and said, "Oh man, I'm so wasted, I thought it was mine!" Yeah.... sure.... jackass. Then I get up, grab my pack from him, and start walking away to take a quick bathroom break. Then I turn around and see him trying to take my friend's backpack as she is sleeping. That's when I lost it and said, "Motherf*cker, put that backpack down right now." He pulled the whole "Oh man, I'm wasted... this isn't my backpack?" line again and pretended to stumble around. I said, "Look, I know you are a piece of sh*t trying to steal, and in my neighborhood this would get you stabbed or shot, but stop with the bullsh*t lies and just leave." I have no respect for thieves.
I don't think I would have been tempted... The second time... he'd be either turned over to the security people, or knocked out. King B had his bookbag stolen, and there's no way we'd let someone get away with doing it again. If that guy was stopped in his tracks by getting knocked out or turned over to the "authorities," he prob wouldn't have done it to about 10 other people.
I'm certainly no advocate for violence, but enough is enough.
The only thing we had stolen was a tube of toothpaste we left out on a cooler.
Just wanted to say i went to a local town/local music fest this weekend and the super angels there were ALL in Tool tee shirts. Got bumped into by a burly drunk and a kid in a Tool shirt picked up my purchase I dropped, asked me if i was okay and cutely asked if i wanted him to go after the guy.
At the end of the day, my husband and I were horribly lost looking for our friend's car. We walk past a house and a guy in a Tool shirt gives us directions to the local bar where we were to meet friends and offers us free shots of tequila. Then two blocks down we see another guy, also in a Tool shirt who recognized my husband in his Rocco DeLuca shirt from an earlier show and offers his cell phone to make whatever calls we need and hung with us until my friend found us.
Funny, since the music was all local jam bands and acoustic peeps, one would never expect so many obvious Tool fans in attendance. But they were to greatest, most helpful people. Good people wear all kinds of hats, and band tee shirts!
came back to camp in the middle of widespread on sunday night to find my cooler and its contents stolen. i was in tent only just a stones throw away from camp inforoo. i'm thankful they didn't go through my tent; not that i had much of anything of real value in there like cash, keys, or electronics.
bummer of a way to close out the weekend. on the brighter side, it did make the trek back to my car much easier monday morning.
We found our $700 generator had been stolen when we came back from WSP on Sunday night......that along with the ridiculous dust in centeroo made my 5th Bonnaroo my last!
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Oh I'm sorry, you're right, metal-heads are just the nicest people in the world aren't they? I completely forgot how much peace love and understanding comes from the metal scene, i mean they're so communal and take care of eachother right? give me a break, have you ever been to a metal show? I completley agree with a previous post, that in the earlier years when bonnaroo was a jam band fest this kind of crap didn't go down and people were there for the music, i went to the Tool show in St. Louis after bonnaroo and guess what, it was a bunch of shitheads that dont care about anyone but themselves.
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Jun 26, 2007 17:03:14 GMT -5
Look.....You're obviously new around here. This board has been flooded w/ threads/posts going back and forth between "Tool fans are going to ruin Bonnaroo" to "I'm a Tool fan and I'm not a meathead" arguments back and forth and over and over again...ad nausem. Just when we thought that flame was extinguished you brought it up again. I think we're all sick of the argument. It's almost as annoying as the "Lot rats are a bunch of dirty wooks who steal" and "Bonnaroo has sold out to popular bands" arguments that go nowhere, accomplish nothing and only serve to clutter up the board. And my post said nothing about metalheads being nice people. Where the f@ck did you get that?
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
Look.....You're obviously new around here. This board has been flooded w/ threads/posts going back and forth between "Tool fans are going to ruin Bonnaroo" to "I'm a Tool fan and I'm not a meathead" arguments back and forth and over and over again...ad nausem. Just when we thought that flame was extinguished you brought it up again. I think we're all sick of the argument. It's almost as annoying as the "Lot rats are a bunch of dirty wooks who steal" and "Bonnaroo has sold out to popular bands" arguments that go nowhere, accomplish nothing and only serve to clutter up the board. And my post said nothing about metalheads being nice people. Where the f@ck did you get that?
You're right, I am obviously new here so i guess i should just agree with what you say because thats what you want and no one else's opinion counts. Why don't you just start a thread of your own so you can talk to people that will only agree with you? Because obviously other people's opinions rub you the wrong way.
Post by stallion pt. 2 on Jun 26, 2007 17:34:12 GMT -5
What?? You totally missed the point, theblake. Please go back and actually READ my reply. I was pointing out that you managed to resuurect one of the many dead horses around here that everyone is sick of beating.
and for the record, "metal-heads in general are just assholes" is NOT an opinion. An opinion expresses preference. "I don't like metal music" is an opinion. "metal-heads in general are just assholes" is a belief, and one based on bullshit ignorance which is therefore not valid.
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
and for the record, "metal-heads in general are just assholes" is NOT an opinion. An opinion expresses preference.
Sorry, "I THINK metal-heads in general are just assholes", is that better cry-baby?
also, how are you coming along with that "Agree with Stallion" thread? or should i just make it for you so you don't have to get all bent out of shape?